Junior High Games

Today, for the first time, I taught all of my junior high 2nd years (all 4 classes) [8th grade equivalent] for the entire class period. I usually teach by myself at all of my other schools, pre-school, elementary and adult class, but this is the first time that the teacher let me run the show for the entire class in junior high. It was awesome and I am glad that I was finally given the chance to prove myself. To be perfectly honest, it had been grating on my nerves for a good 4 months that I wasn't given the opportunity to actually teach junior high by myself. Then I came to terms with it, and for the past 2 months, I contented myself with writing letters back and forth with the students, since I didn't feel I had adequate interaction with them. Now the tides have turned and I have taught 1st years (for about 10 minutes) and 2nd years. We did a Mission Impossible Game where the students, in teams, had to solve each problem, then hand it to me to get the next problem to solve until all 6 were done. They loved it...and they loved my computer most of all. They kept touching it and wanted to know what music I had on it and were BLOWN away that it was all in English. Hello kids, I teach English! It was pretty entertaining. Although, I don't know why I am laughing at them, because I was blown away when I first came to Japan that the keyboards were different and everything was in Japanese. I see myself in them all the time, which makes it really entertaining....wait, that DOESN'T mean I act like I'm 13, by the way (to you sarcastic commenters, you know who you are)!! I am starting to learn their names now...they don't sound so foreign anymore. 1,000 Ayaka's, Momoka's, Ayana's (girls); Takahiro's, Ryuu's and Kenta's (boys) later, I can tell which is their first and which is their last names. It wasn't always so. They can't tell which is my first and last name either.